Rust Cohle, the dyspeptic protagonist of HBO’s True Detective, made both nihilism and logorrhea cool again in 2014, as […]
Category Archive: television
Historians have always had a tough time writing about media. The danger of technological determinism tends to loom […]
[Editor’s Note: This piece closes out our Asian Pacific American Heritage Month coverage. Be sure to check out […]
With Stephen Colbert departing for CBS to replace David Letterman in 2015, I’d like to preemptively ring the […]
When HBO premiered the first episode of its new series Looking in mid-January, the show, as noted by NPR’s […]
In part II of ToM’s AHA 2014 coverage our correspondents begin with papers on the efforts of Latin […]
Bill O’Reilly recently thought he had liberals pinned in their remorseless war on Christmas: the namby-pamby secular humanists […]
30 Rock is kind of like a microbrew. Ten or fifteen years ago, most Americans didn’t know there […]